There ’s been a bonanza in the bad ideas marketplace , as expert face for idiotic ideas to direct school shootings since stricter ordnance control is apparently off the tabular array . Luckily , the tribe at Fox News have a new idea for responding to active shooter position : blast maw through the walls of schools with water cannon to empty children .
Earlier this hebdomad defence specialist Allison Barrie , writing for Fox News , advise constabulary should roll up on schools being victimized by a shot , line up a compact air weapon called the BCB Wall Breaker , and shoot a big blame hole in the side of the schooltime with a urine feeding bottle to allow students to crawl out to safety .
No , for real . That ’s the whole thought .
The story , which read like a boundary line advertorial for BCB International ’s cannon , suggests that an artillery weapon system which use water bottles as ammunition is the perfect instrument to minimize the loss of life-time during a school shooting . Here ’s how Barrie suggest things would playact out :
Imagine students barricaded in classroom with no room to bunk . The shooter is roaming the hallways . The only going is the door to the hallway . If scholarly person tried to escape via the hall , they could be greatly at risk .
Outside the school day building , police force could flap up these water cannons and quickly perforate holes in the walls of every schoolroom providing large leakage holes .
If student have been spite , first responder can use the mess to quicken memory access to aesculapian care .
There ’s … a whole caboodle go on there , but let ’s commence with the fact that , per the FBI , about 70 percentage of active shooter incidents last just five minutes , and 67 percent of them stop before the police even arrive . So right out of the gate , there ’s a pretty modified figure of opportunities to use a carom . In the few cases the cops could seethe this thing out , they ’d bleed into a number of challenge include identifying where to perform the blast and how to communicate with the great unwashed inside to verify they are n’t in the crease of fire . You ’re gon na scare the shit out of some already terrorize children if you do n’t let them know the blast is coming .
Do n’t worry though , Fox News has some other uses for the Wall Breaker other than just performing search and deliverance missions . In a “ But wait , there ’s more ! ” way spell , the clause also hint the cannon can be used for “ perpetrator apprehension , ” as well as a telephone number of military uses :
An active shooter will expect law enforcement to intervene through threshold and windows . With this cannon , law enforcement can discharge the cannon at any wall to make their own “ door . ”
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Similar to active shooter scenario in schools , the carom could be useful in the event of a large - scale Mumbai - stylus terrorist attack where civilian are hunted and held surety .
It could be used against terrorists using vehicle as weapons to drive at civilians in the street .
For exemplar , cannon could be positioned in advance to protect 4th of July crowds . If a terrorist drove at the crowd , the cannon could blast the water system bottle that would tear through the fomite and stop the onset .
pass a span transactions think through that scenario where someone shoot a car with a cannon to halt a terrorist flack ( on the 4th of July , of grade ! ) and attempt to resist the impulse to take the air into the ocean . But sure , whatever . A water bottle cannon , it turns out , is the double-dyed weapon for any situation . It slices , it cube , andmakes julienne tike !
Look , this idea is fucking bonkers . right on off the bat , it profess that school shot are an inevitability , suggesting there is nothing to be done to prevent the actual act itself . If that ’s something you desire to surrender on , fine — and there ’s nothing wrong with acknowledging it ’s presently a problem and seeking ideas that lessen hurt — but the use cases for this thing are so miniscule as to carry through next to nothing . Active shooter situations find tight and are disorderly . undulate up a shank is not give-up the ghost to be something there ’s a lot of sentence for , exactly when police do n’t have a lot of it .
This is just the late in a long strain of ideas for addressing schooling shootings that are designed to avoid talking about gas pedal control . Politicians have suggestedviolent video gamesare to blame forcorrupting the youth(they aren’t),access to pornhas deteriorate the kinsperson and head kids astray ( nah ) , and there aretoo many doors in schoolsthat allow shooters to get in ( fucking what ? ) . American English ownmore guns per capitathan anywhere else in the earth and the US has thehighest gun homicide rateof any developed body politic . perhaps that ’s a blank space we can start .
Or we can shoot walls with weewee cannon .
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